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FILM CATALOGUE

Search the Winnipeg Film Group's Film Catalogue for independent Canadian films dating back to 1973.

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My Boy

By Sage | 00:25:00 | Documentary | 1/03/18

In 2014 Lydias son, Colten Pratt, went missing off the streets of Winnipeg. In the weeks that followed, Lydia was met with adversity as she tried desperately to find her son. It seemed to her, that the plight of a lost Aboriginal man fell on deaf ears. Weeks turned to months, months turned to years.…

Trembling Like a Leaf in the Wind

By Susan Turner | 00:04:24 | Animation, Experimental | 20/12/2016

Using footage and audio of the last few months of her mothers life (piano playing, coughing, breathing) and intertwining them with her own abstract images, the artist takes the viewer through her poetic narration of her mothers last, quiet moments.

Peppermint Ashes (Leagan)

By Vjosana Shkurti | 00:10:30 | Narrative-Fiction | 10/05/17

It has been a many years since Irina and her mother left Romania to live in Montreal. Away from their family, Irina becomes disconnected and absorbed in virtual worlds which separate her from her mother. When she is faced with the passing of a grandparent, she turns to her closest ally in attempt to understand…

Echoes

By Jaimz Asmundson | 00:06:00 | Experimental | 01/01/2015

Structured around the recollection of a premonitory dream, fragmented memories from the period leading up to the death of the filmmakerâs mother were projected on to natural textures and surfaces, re-photographed, composited and processed until the memories became abstracted representations of the evolution, degradation and disintegration of memory and the physical self.

COLLAPSED

By Kaoru Ryan Klatt | 00:12:16 | Narrative-Fiction | 28/01/2014

The story of a mother who has lost her son for reasons beyond her control. Set in an endless landscape of wheat fields, she pushes down the walls of her home to give herself a better view and a runway to fly up into the âclear blueâ.

Unwoven

By Cecilia Araneda | 00:14:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/8/2001

On the death of her mother, a woman recalls another separation that happened to her as a child. Through memories of a childhood braiding game, she comes to understand her mothers profound sadness and her own need for connection.

strawboy

By Daniel Eskin | 00:11:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/12/2003

Set in the world of dreams and fantasy, a young boy attempts to solve his mother's murder while confined to a staircase. Ultimately a story of a boy emerging from childhood and accepting responsibility, "strawboy" examines those often hazy borders between fantasy and reality, and those between early life and adulthood.

A Trip To The Orphanage

By Guy Maddin | 00:04:00 | Narrative-Fiction | 1/1/2004

A visually lovely partial-sound homage to the silent film era, or a four-minute music video from a hundred-year-old film vault.

Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors

By Arlea Ashcroft | 00:03:30 | Experimental | 01/08/2008

A woman deals with the death of her mother through self-annihilating tendencies. Shot in one take, on a single cartridge of super8 film, Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors was originally shot for the One Take Super 8 Event for WNDX, Winnipeg's Festival of Film and Video Art.

Going going gone

By Carole O'Brien | 00:02:37 | Experimental | 01/03/2008

A young girlâs dispute with her motherâ¦ and its unexpected poetic unravelling. She waves to the camera and as her turmoil disappears, so does she. (This film was commissioned by the Winnipeg Film Groupâs Cinematheque for its 25th anniversary, Silverscope)

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The Winnipeg Film Group is an artist-run education, production, exhibition and distribution centre committed to promoting the art of cinema.

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We’re located in the heart of Winnipeg's historic Exchange District in the Artspace building. We are across the street from Old Market Square at the corner of Arthur Street and Bannatyne - one block west of Main.

The Winnipeg Film Group is located on Treaty 1 Territory and on the ancestral lands of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene Peoples and in the homeland of the Métis Nation. We offer our respect and gratitude to the traditional caretakers of this land.

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